Chapter 809: Battle of the Night(1/2)
The moon rises to the willows, and people make an appointment after dusk.
Although today is not Lantern Festival, the moon tonight is particularly round, with the stars in the night sky shining with charming light.
Ding Yi leaned against the tree trunk, sat on a thick branch, looking at the bright moon in the air. I wonder if this bright moon was at work, but Ding Yi suddenly missed Fairy Chang'e who had met in the DC world.
After we parted that day, decades have passed since now.
Time flies in the world, and decades may be their lives for ordinary people.
For Ding Yi, that day seemed to be yesterday.
Everything is still vivid in my mind and unforgettable.
In Ding Yi's live broadcast room, many viewers also started to gossip when they saw Ding Yi staring at the moon in a daze.
【Civilian】Black Widow: "When a man is dazed at something, or even smiles unconsciously, he is missing a woman."
[Tycoon] Leader of Tongtian: "My friend, you miss the spring, hahahaha..."
【Tycoon】The Three Holy Mother: "Big Radish, Hum!"
【Tycoon】 Luo Feng: "You guess, which woman Ding Yi is missing?"
[Civilian] Iron Man: "You still need to guess? Although I don't know the various cultures of China, I happened to be studying the myths and legends of China recently. What do you think Ding Yi is looking at now?"
[Rich] Jade Rabbit Fairy: "I dance! I dance! I want to find my master!"
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Ding Yi didn't pay attention to these barrage in the live broadcast room.
Just as he was trapped in memories of the past, suddenly the entire settlement was filled with fire, and a huge bonfire was lit in the distance, and the dull drum sounded throughout the night sky.
Ding Yi, who was interrupted by the memories, couldn't help frowning, and turned his head to look over with a bad look on his face.
At this moment, Hank rushed out of the wooden house below, looked up and shouted to Ding Yi sitting on the tree: "Chris, hurry up, something big happened!"
After leaping, Ding Yi jumped directly from the tree and landed in front of Hank.
"What's wrong?" he asked looking at Hank.
"It's a jackal, a large group of knives are coming towards this side!" Hank had a solemn expression on his face. If the knives appear alone, it is not a threat at all, and it will even become their food. However, the meat of knives is not delicious, so they never hunt this kind of creature.
But the problem is that the knife-bone jackal on Skull Island is like ordinary wild wolves outside, and they like to live in groups.
When they usually appear, they always have more than a dozen or even twenty or thirty heads together. Even carnivores with much larger sizes have to hide from them far away.
As for the news from the outpost just now, there are more than forty knives who have been discovered, and there may be more that have not been seen later.
Hank has lived on Skull Island for almost thirty years. The last time he encountered such a situation was about eleven years ago. Although they finally killed the group of wild beasts, the price they paid was very heavy.
This is why, the indigenous people in this settlement have been passed down on Skull Island for thousands of years, but the number of people has never exceeded one thousand.
Basically, a large number of wild beasts on the island will attack every period of time. In addition, the casualties when going out to hunt, the number of indigenous people in the entire settlement is only just over 300, which includes the elderly and children.
If you only count as young and middle-aged people... there are less than two hundred people.
In the wooden house, James and the others also put on their clothes and ran out with weapons.
When Hank saw that they were all out, he hurriedly said, "We must join them in resisting the attacks of the beasts outside, otherwise the wall outside will be broken, and we will all die here!"
"Speak as you walk." James realized the seriousness of the situation and said in a row.
At this time, Ding Yi was flipping through the barrage in the live broadcast room. When he saw that everyone guessed his little thoughts just now, he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.
However, Ding Yi is not a young man in his teens or twenties anymore. He is a few hundred years old. After a moment of embarrassment, he immediately returned to normal.
At this time, he saw Hank and the others preparing to set off and rush to the outside wall to participate in the battle. Ding Yi also rushed to the already crowded wall in the distance.
When Ding Yi and the others arrived, many people had gathered on the wall.
Simple lifting devices kept rising and falling, sending an indigenous warrior holding a bow and arrow and spear to the top of the wall.
It is obviously impossible for a lifting device like this to be from the hands of these natives, and it goes without saying that it must be Hank's work.
"Hurry up, everyone comes up!" A lifting device just fell down. Hank immediately stepped forward and opened the small wooden door, turned around and waved to several people and shouted.
Faced with this battle that is related to life and death, even weak women like Dr. Shan and Weaver participated. However, it was relatively safe on the wall, and in fact it might be safer there than staying in the settlement.
The size of the knife-bone jackal is not big, just a little bigger than the ordinary wild wolf, but they are thin, and their waists and abdomen seem to be in a state of extreme hunger at any time. They can simply describe their appearance and signs as thin.
Like the entrances and exits below the walls that are more than one person tall, they can enter and exit freely.
Therefore, even if you stay in your settlement, it is not absolutely safe.
On the contrary, on the wall, because of height, it is very difficult for those knives to get up. In addition, the many indigenous warriors holding bows and arrows and spears on the wall will never be able to climb to a wall that is more than twenty meters high unless they are too large.
In the lifting device on the stand, the device gradually rose with a slight shaking and a 'crunching' sound coming from the ears.
Through the gap in the middle of the wall, everyone could see pairs of miserable green eyes appearing in the dark canyon outside the wall. Each pair of eyes represents a jackal. At first glance, just what they saw, the number exceeded twenty or thirty.
These sword-spine jackals did not rush up to die blindly. They hovered outside the range of the bows and arrows of the indigenous warriors, slowly gathering more companions, as if waiting for an attack signal.
Unlike others, darkness cannot stop Ding Yi's gaze. He can see more pictures that others cannot see.
Just behind the large group of sword-rod jackals, the bushes were shaking, as if something was coming.
At this time, the sword-spine jackals gathered together also raised their heads and let out wolf howls. It was like an attack signal. Dozens of sword-spine jackals who were originally hovering on the periphery suddenly rushed towards them.
On the wall, many indigenous warriors shouted loudly, saying something in the language of their tribe.
"Be careful, there are all people coming from behind, be careful." Ding Yi took out a folded bow from his backpack, and while unfolding it, he also reminded the people beside him.
Turning around, Ding Yi's eyes also looked at the large group of sword-spine jackals running in the distance.
"I haven't used a bow for a long time, I don't know if I have any hands." Ding Yi muttered, picking up a wooden-handled stone arrow and putting it on the bow.
Draw the bow and shoot the arrow!
The action was done in one go.
The arrows shot tore the air and penetrated the head of a rushing jackal. The wooden arrow could not withstand such a huge force, and almost exploded when it penetrated the head of the rushal jackal.
"The first head." Ding Yi remembered the number in his mind, and continued to draw his bow and shoot arrows.
On the side, gunfire sounded.
Although James and his team's bullets were wrong, it is not the time to discuss savings.
Bullets hit the sword-spine jackals below, and several sword-spine jackals fell halfway and could no longer get up.
The atmosphere was tense and everyone was fighting.
Arrows broke through the air, but the flexible sword-rod jackals avoided most of the arrows. These native warriors were not Ding Yi. Even if the arrows they shot were hit, they could not cause fatal damage to these sword-rod jackals. Fortunately, they were large in numbers, and only two were not enough for one arrow.
In fact, those sword-rod jackals shot by the indigenous soldiers often have more than a dozen arrows inserted into the body.
Fortunately, they usually stock up on enough arrows, otherwise such a large consumption would probably have run out of ammunition and food before half of the Knife-Red Jackals could be killed.
Before Ding Yi knew it, there were only the last five arrows left.
He basically shot most of the dead knives below. Even if James and his friends used assault rifles, the number of knives killed was far from comparable to Ding Yi.
This made James and the others watch again.
Sixty or seventy sword-spine jackals, Ding Yi shot more than thirty by himself. At this moment, more than a dozen sword-spine jackals who were still alive had rushed to the bottom of the wall. Their long and powerful claws directly clamped the surface of the wood and jumped upwards, looking bloodthirsty, as if they were demons crawling out of the depths of hell.
On the fence, the indigenous soldiers put away their bows and arrows, picked up their spears and stood at the edge of the fence, and projected directly downwards.
From time to time, a jackal was hit by a spear. Even if it was not dead for the time being, it could not get up after falling down, making it even more impossible to threaten these people on the wall.
More than a dozen knives and jackals went on one after another like suicide squads, but in the end only two successfully rushed up the wall.
With a "bang", the sword-spine jackal who had just climbed up the wall and had not had time to show his fangs was directly beaten away by Ding Yi with a stick.
On the other hand, James joined forces with Slicker and Brooks to shoot the other jackal. However, before they killed the jackal, two native soldiers were injured. One of the abdomen was caught with a two-foot-long hole in his abdomen, and his intestines were flowing out, and he was afraid that he would not be alive.
Seeing his companion who was still fighting side by side the moment before, but was dying the next second, James and the others looked particularly ugly.
"Calm yourself, the danger has not passed yet!" Hank took a deep breath of the strong bloody smell in the air and entered his lungs, then turned to look at the darkness outside the wall.
There, several huge figures were approaching.
Ding Yi jumped to a wooden stake on the wall and looked at the figures in the distance, including his old acquaintance - the evil swamp dragon he had encountered before!
"Is this guy here to seek revenge?" Ding Yi grinned.
The five-headed monsters are headed by the woodland ghost bear with a huge size on both ends and a height of more than 25 feet (7.62 meters) on all fours.
Woodland ghost bear is a carnivorous monster living in the southeast of Skull Island. The adult woodland ghost bear can be as long as 40 to 46 feet (12 to 14 meters), its strong limbs, and two huge fangs on its upper jaw are their weapons of attack.
In addition, when the life of the woodland ghost bears is threatened, they will also shoot out a circle of hair like a steel needle on their neck, and the close-range power is comparable to that of the Barrett sniper rifle.
Behind the two woodland ghost bears are three evil swamp dragons, one of which was encountered by Ding Yi and the others in the swamp. Ding Yi's hunting knife is inserted in its right eye, and it has not been taken out yet.
The evil dragon in the swamp seemed to smell Ding Yi's smell and suddenly became irritable.
On the wall, hundreds of indigenous warriors who also found these five monsters were shocked at this moment.
"Damn it! This kind of monster has never appeared before, how could it be this time?" Hank also looked solemn, holding a spear's hand, and blue veins swelled up on the back of his hand.
When James and the others heard this, they had a vague guess in their hearts, guessing that this might be related to their arrival.
Because they also discovered the evil swamp dragon with the right eye injured.
To be continued...